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Jun '01
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Gay Pride, Gay Courage
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June is traditionally a time to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising where in drag queens, bar patrons, and street riff raff stood up to anti-gay police harassment. And for over three decades the rallying cry of June's
marches and events has been "gay pride." |
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May '01
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The Real Indecency
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The state of Utah now has a "Porn Czar" whose job it is to make sure that state's citizens are not exposed to "obscene" materials. A 41-year-old reputed virgin has been selected to scrutinize, judge, and censor books,
magazines, videos, movies, art, and Internet content. |
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Apr '01
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A Modest Sexual Proposal
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Most of us have probably, at sometime, tabulated (or tried to estimate!) how many people we've had sex with. Adolescents tally conquests with buddies, sitcom characters speculate on each others totals, and some sex hounds even log each new conquest with precision. |
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Mar '01
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Attack the Religious Right
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Why didn't Al Gore slam dunk George Bush in the last presidential
election? As vice-president, Gore inherited a seemingly invincible
political legacy: the country was enjoying unparalleled prosperity,
and the new
uni-polar world order signaled that the past decade of (relative)
American peace could be extended indefinitely. |
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Feb '01
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Clinton's Unintentional Legacy
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As a presidential candidate, Bill Clinton sought political gain by flying home to Arkansas to oversee the execution of prisoners. As president, he reiterated his support for state killings, again seeking political advantage
by being seen as a leader willing to throw the switch. It comes as no surprise, then, that Clinton will not be remembered as a friend of civil liberties. |
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Jan '01
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No More Prisons
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Many gay publications are eager to tout the upscale demographics of their supposed readership. Moneyed readers not only appeal to advertisers, but also-- in some minds-- confer respectability to magazines and
newspapers otherwise "compromised" by their gay identity. |
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Dec '00
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Sex, Love, and Television
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Even a casual channel surfer cannot help but notice a tremendous change in television content in the last few years. Gay and lesbian people are everywhere: sitcoms, talk shows, and made-for-TV dramas now routinely feature gay characters. |
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Nov '00
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Make Your Vote Count: Vote Nader
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Given Al Gore's terrible record on sexual freedom and social justice issues, why are many gay and lesbian voters supporting him? |
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Oct '00
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The ACLU Gets It
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Allowed to compete freely with alternative theories, truth has an advantage. Incomplete understanding or the prejudices of the age may temporarily obscure truth, but when inquiry is unfettered, when dogma receives
no subsidy in the form of punishment for dissenters, truth prevails. |
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Sep '00
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Join the Dick Army!
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Remember Dick Armey, the US House of Representatives Majority Leader who caused a stir in 1995 by calling openly gay Representative Barney Frank "Barney Fag"? |
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Aug '00
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Mbeki's Lessons
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"What an idiot!" was one HIV researcher's response when contacted for
The Guide's July 2000 story on South African President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS policies. That scientist's reaction is common. |
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Jul '00
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Free Bernard Baran
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In 1985, Bernard Baran, then 19, was convicted of multiple rapes of three-, four-, and five-year-old boys and girls at the Massachusetts daycare center where he worked. Sentenced to three concurrent life terms, he has
been incarcerated ever since. But Baran has survived. And he has steadfastly maintained that he is innocent, even though "admitting" his guilt would be his only chance for release. |
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Jun '00
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Gay Pride Is Sex Pride
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Boyd McDonald, the great chronicler of homosexuality, once noted, "I don't consider any gay publications that don't deal with the elemental discussion of gay sexual desire to be serious-- I consider them shallow
and frivolous..." |
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May '00
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Dr. Laura's Right
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A hate monger who must be silenced-- that's how many gay groups and individuals label talk radio's Laura Schlessinger, a.k.a. Dr. Laura. What has triggered such concerted efforts to muzzle her? |
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Apr '00
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wwwelcoming change
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At the center of life is change. The new replaces the old which in time becomes the old and is itself replaced by another new. This cycle of birth, growth, decay, and death is the inescapable framework in which we work
out the pattern of our lives. |
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Mar '00
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Drag Queen as Prophet
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Like other prophets without honor in
their
own country, drag queens continue to be
treated with condescension and
discrimination by many in the gay and
lesbian community.
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Feb '00
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America's Criminal Policy
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As the millennium turns, the United States has surpassed Russia and now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. |
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Jan '00
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Gay Is Fundamental
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What do we mean when we say that someone is gay or that someone is straight? |
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Dec '99
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Wyoming: Inequality State
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Matthew Shepard's murder, we are told by many gay spokespeople, underscores the need for hate crime laws to deter and condemn violence motivated by bigotry. |
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Nov '99
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The Sex Offender Majority
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All fifty states now have sex of fenders registries (SORs), agencies with multi-million dollar budgets mandated to track every move of "sexually dangerous persons" and "sexual predators." Though created only in the last few years, SORs have been retroactively registering those convicted of sex crimes decades earlier, people who had served their time and thought they were now free. And the US Supreme has okayed SOR legislation permitting lifetime incarceration of people who aren't serving time for any conviction, but who are deemed to have a "personality abnormality" that makes them likely to become a "sex offender." |
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Oct '99
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'Gay' Is Not Enough
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Not so long ago, when homophobia was omnipresent, calling yourself "gay" meant that you challenged prevailing sexual values. People interested in replacing fearful attitudes about deviant sexuality or chucking out the foolish notion that jealous possessiveness signaled love could welcome those claiming a gay identity. |
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Sep '99
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Loyal, Kind, Brave... and Gay
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The New Jersey Supreme Court declared this month that the Boy Scouts cannot discriminate against members who declare themselves to be gay. Though the ruling is a welcome victory for freedom of speech, those who value sexual freedom should remain wary of much of the judges' reasoning; the fundamental fight is not about an individual's right to label himself "gay" but instead about everyone's right to enjoy gay sex. As sexual liberationists, we must be mindful not to trade the freedom to act on gay desires for a court-sanctioned ability to assert only a theoretical gay identity. |
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Aug '99
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Abusing Children
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A shocking story of children, sex, and police unfolded this past month in York Haven, Pennsylvania. |
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Jul '99
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Sexual Leadership
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Where have we come in the thirty years since the Stonewall riots? How has the status of homosexuality changed as a result of three decades of gay activism? |
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Jun '99
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Jenny Jones Disaster
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On March 6, 1996, the "Jenny Jones Show" (a daytime talk show) taped a program about
secret crushes. At that taping, guest Scott Amedure revealed his admiration of fellow
guest Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz, who had been told by producers that his secret admirer could be
a man or a woman, blushed and smiled. The two guys, along with friends and audience
members, laughed and joked good-naturedly about Scott's crush. After the taping, Scott and
Jonathan, accompanied by their mutual friend Donna, went out drinking, continuing friendly banter
about the program.
But three days later, things went tragically bad. Jonathan Schmitz bought a shotgun, went
to Scott Amedure's home, and shot him dead. |
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May '99
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Rape Nonsense
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When you read in the paper that "a former scoutmaster was sentenced to fifty years in prison for raping one of his troop members," what do you imagine happened? |
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Apr '99
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Pro Sex
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Why is prostitution so vehemently suppressed? Cops arrest hookers and hustlers, district attorneys target escort services for sting operations, and neighbors copy down suspected johns' license plate numbers in attempts to embarrass prostitution clients. Society assigns to sex workers the social status of drug dealers and petty thieves. Our culture which usually worships market economics reacts differently when the commodity being hawked is sex. Why? |
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Mar '99
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Adultery Acquittal
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The adultery trial of William Jefferson Clinton is mercifully over. Television and newspaper pundits tell us that although Clinton was acquitted, his sexual shenanigans brought shame on the presidency and that his legacy will be forever compromised. Congressional Democrats join in the condemnation chorus: Clinton should be ashamed though not impeached for his cheating. The public is told to be glad that a "sorry chapter" in American history is now finished. |
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Feb '99
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A Valentine's Message
By: French Wall
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The great chronicler of gay sex Boyd McDonald was fond of repeating the aphorism "How often have we gone out looking for sex but found only love." As he did so often, Boyd managed to lampoon our culture's inverted sexual values with words that seem, at first, to be twisted in order to amuse. But Boyd wasn't just being clever or ironic-- his seemingly mangled proverb, taken at face-value, exposes how we are ill-served by prevalent attitudes about sex and love. |
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Jan '99
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Gay Marriage?
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Careful examination reveals that genuine concerns about fairness and a thoughtful political strategy demand
we not join any crusade to further sanctify an institution that has not served us well. |
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